Brayer Arias-Colazo, 24, of Carpentersville, faces numerous charges after, police said, he drove drunk and crashed his vehicle into another car, killing a 5-month-old infant and injuring three others November 2016 in Barrington Hills.

After nearly a two-year investigation by Barrington Hills police, a 24-year-old Carpentersville man recently was arrested and charged in a 2016 crash that killed a 5-month-old infant and injured three others, authorities said.

Barrington Hills police started the investigation shortly after Nov. 3, 2016, when, just before 7 p.m., a 2001 Ford pickup truck driven by the Carpentersville man and headed south on Route 25 at Silverstone Drive collided with a 2010 Dodge Journey that was driven by Gina Vargas, 32, who also lived in Carpentersville at the time, Barrington Hills police said in a statement May 8.

Roughly two years later, Brayer Arias-Colazo, 24, of Carpentersville, was charged in the incident with aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol causing death, aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol causing great bodily harm, reckless homicide and speeding more than 35 mph over the posted speed limit.

Vargas’ 5-month-old daughter died as a result of the crash, Barrington Hills police have said.

Vargas herself and her two other daughters, ages 8 and 13, were seriously injured in the crash. Arias-Colazo was not injured, police said.

Barrington Hills Police Sgt. Ron Riedel, who led the department’s investigation of the crash, said May 8 the damaged state of the “black box” in Arias-Colazo’s car prolonged the investigation and delayed the department’s recommendation of charges to authorities.

But with the assistance of Carpentersville police, officers in Barrington Hills took Arias-Colazo into custody May 7, when he was charged.

He was unable to post a $100,000 bond and subsequently was taken to the Kane County Adult Justice Center in St. Charles, where he is being held, police said.

Riedel said one factor that prolonged the investigation was the condition of the “black box” in Arias-Colazo’s vehicle, which records speed information but was damaged beyond the point of providing useful crash data for police.

“And that took time as we moved to doing a full investigation,” Riedel said.

Without the speed information, it took investigators longer to reconstruct the crash, he said. Investigators, who received assistance from the Lake County Major Crash Assistance Team, ultimately determined that Arias-Colazo was driving at 82 mph in a 45-mph zone when the crash happened, police said.

Despite the long investigation, police knew of the places where Arias-Colazo had been living since the crash, Riedel said.

“We’d been staying in contact with several police agencies,” he said. “Carpentersville police made the initial arrest, and we took custody of him.”

Arias-Colazo’s next court date is May 18 at the Kane County Courthouse, authorities said.